Wetboek van Koophandel

Wetboek van Koophandel is a codification of Dutch commerce laws signed into law in 1838 based on the Napoleonic Code that was introduced in the Netherlands during the French conquest of the Netherlands.^{[ citation needed ]} The law was then introduced by the Dutch to the Dutch East Indies, and has remained Indonesia's commerce law also after independence.^{[ citation needed ]}

The laws containing regulations about the creation of Commanditaire Vennootschap, Naamloze Vennootschap, Firma as well as another rechtspersoon, shipping and trading regulations and bankruptcy laws.^{[ citation needed ]} The laws is related to another private law of the Netherlands, Burgerlijk Wetboek and has some elements borrowed from the civil codification.^{[ citation needed ]}